Unknown? They're just afraid that their arguments are so bad (and, consequently, the money for the private lawyers will be judged so harshly) that were video available it would make not only the news but The View.

A pilot program to allow video recording in some federal courts is getting resistance from a new source: lawyers for the U.S. House's Republican leadership. The federal judiciary began the experiment in July in 14 district courts around the country, responding to pressure from Congress and elsewh...